QSYSTABLES SAP (iSeries: System Catalog View of Tables in SAP Data Library) Structure details
Description: iSeries: System Catalog View of Tables in SAP Data Library
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
QSYSTABLES is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "iSeries: System Catalog View of Tables in SAP Data Library" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_QSYSTABLES TYPE QSYSTABLES.
The QSYSTABLES table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about iSeries: System Catalog View of Tables in SAP Data Library data available in SAP. These include TBCREATOR (iSeries: Owner of table or view), TBTYPE (iSeries: Table type), COLCOUNT (iSeries: Number of columns in table/view/index), ROW_LENGTH (iSeries: Maximum length of any row in table or view).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Not classified
SAP QSYSTABLES structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
| Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
| TBNAME | iSeries: SQL Name of Table or View | TBNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | AS4TAB | |||
| TBCREATOR | iSeries: Owner of table or view | TBCREATOR | CHAR | 10 | QCHAR10 | ||||
| TBTYPE | iSeries: Table type | TBTYPE | CHAR | 1 | QQC11 | ||||
| COLCOUNT | iSeries: Number of columns in table/view/index | COLCOUNT | INT4 | 10 | QINT4 | ||||
| ROW_LENGTH | iSeries: Maximum length of any row in table or view | ROW_LENGTH | INT4 | 10 | QINT4 | ||||
| LABELTEXT | iSeries: Label of a table or view | TB_LABEL | CHAR | 50 | QCHAR50 | ||||
| REMARKS | iSeries: Long comment of a table, view or table field | REMARKS | CHAR | 255 | QQ1000 | ||||
| DBNAME | iSeries: SQL schema name of table or view | TAB_SCHEMA | CHAR | 10 | QQTLN | ||||
| ALTEREDTS | iSeries: Timestamp of last change date | ALTEREDTS | CHAR | 26 | QQTIME | ||||
| SYS_TNAME | iSeries: iSeries system name of table or view | SYS_TNAME | CHAR | 10 | QCHAR10 | ||||
| SYS_DNAME | iSeries: iSeries system name of table/view schema | SYS_DNAME | CHAR | 10 | QCHAR10 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure QSYSTABLES using ABAP code?
As QSYSTABLES is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on QSYSTABLES as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table QSYSTABLES
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about QSYSTABLES and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
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